BSSD and the Education Foundation partnered this summer to host So You Want To Be An Author writing program. Over 850 summer school students participated in the program and celebrated the last day with certificates, medals and ice cream. Finalists Ethan Striegel (DYE), Violetta Lamb (DYE), and Shelby Waters (PKMS) won a $500 college scholarship from the Education Foundation and had their books brought to life by a professional animator. Local Business Partner Price Chopper provided the ice cream.

Blue Springs Wildcats 2015 graduate Carlos Davis has been named the 2014-15 Gatorade Missouri Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year. Davis won the discus and shot put at the Missouri State Track and Field Championships, leading the Cats to a second-straight team title. Davis' throw of 214 feet, 4 inches in the discus ranks,as the nation's top prep mark this year. Davis is a finalist for the Gatorade National Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year award.